From the maintainer: https://drewdevault.com/blog/Forking-vim/

HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47519308

With respect to the creator, Vim9 script is inferior to Lua in terms of adoption, learning curve, stability, features and probably performance. If the purpose is to serve users a new DSL is not really defensible when Neovim has proved Lua works

I only noticed it when a slew of security holes (re-)introduced by uncritical merging of LLM code got CVEs assigned.

Luckily I was lazy running a custom build of vim and hadn't updated since they started lowering the merge barrier (or however you can put this politely).

I'm not a fan of him, but I'm still glad he picked up this.

Just take a gander on the recent issues listed here, and how completely unavoidable they are: https://github.com/vim/vim/security

I hoped the people that wanted neovim features would've stuck to neovim instead of pushing vim to accelerate, but it seems like free LLM tokens made it a bit too tempting.

edit: I'm regarded, I misread your post, ignore me.

I remember talking to him a lot on #minecraft on freenode over a decade ago.